Depth Chart Fall ‘25 - anyone want to guess?

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tabrams said:
If we go 7-5 then yea I was will beyond mad and so will everyone else.

But after losing so many players via grad, portal, NFL, etc, how is this roster going to be good?

The only way we can be really good is of we add 6-8 more top players in key spots imo.. Hopefully these depth charts are leaving out some very Good players too.
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FBtime said:
Yeah for sure because there's NO way to fix that through recruiting and the portal.
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This is where I get frustrated. Heupel talks like a fan, and how depth is a challenge. You’re the coach, coach. See that issue a year out. Hit the portal. Shuffle position coaches as needed. Recruit then DEVELOP to need.

Heupel seems so passive most of the time. You never heard Saban or any other great coach reflect on depth issues. They fix them. Because that’s like, their job.
 
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VolInNW said:
This is where I get frustrated. Heupel talks like a fan, and how depth is a challenge. You’re the coach, coach. See that issue a year out. Hit the portal. Shuffle position coaches as needed. Recruit then DEVELOP to need.

Heupel seems so passive most of the time. You never heard Saban or any other great coach reflect on depth issues. They fix them. Because that’s like, their job.
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We had 5 DBs leave last year and then replaced them with better players. We had 5 WRs leave this year but we already had the better players on the roster. He has filled in depth where the coaches perceived it was needed and I trust them to continue to do so.
 
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FBtime said:
We had 5 DBs leave last year and then replaced them with better players. We had 5 WRs leave this year but we already had the better players on the roster. He has filled in depth where the coaches perceived it was needed and I trust them to continue to do so.
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I think you rely on recruiting too much. Heup doesn’t recruit well and the portal is pick and choose. You said to me earlier about building up the OLine and dline get through the portal.. sure we did with Wendell and Pendleton this year. That doesn’t equal quality depth tho. You can’t continue to run plug ins every year. Especially if we plan on ever beating uga with heup
 
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RockyTopTexas said:
I think you rely on recruiting too much. Heup doesn’t recruit well and the portal is pick and choose. You said to me earlier about building up the OLine and dline get through the portal.. sure we did with Wendell and Pendleton this year. That doesn’t equal quality depth tho. You can’t continue to run plug ins every year. Especially if we plan on ever beating uga with heup
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Exact same situation going on with every team. College football in 2025. 🤷
 
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RockyTopTexas said:
I think you rely on recruiting too much. Heup doesn’t recruit well and the portal is pick and choose. You said to me earlier about building up the OLine and dline get through the portal.. sure we did with Wendell and Pendleton this year. That doesn’t equal quality depth tho. You can’t continue to run plug ins every year. Especially if we plan on ever beating uga with heup
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The plugins are to allow the younger talent to develop as needed. Not every OL recruit will be as advanced and ready as David Sanders.
 
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FBtime said:
The plugins are to allow the younger talent to develop as needed. Not every OL recruit will be as advanced and ready as David Sanders.
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but the young talent leaves... that's the problem.. we are keeping like 7 guys a class under heup
 
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RockyTopTexas said:
but the young talent leaves... that's the problem.. we are keeping like 7 guys a class under heup
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2022 Class
James Pearce (NFL Draft)
Dylan Sampson (NFL Draft)
Dee Williams (graduated)
Bru McCoy (graduated)
André Turrentine (Senior)
Josh Joseph’s (Senior)
Tyre West (senior)
Jackson Ross ( Senior)
Brian Grant (rsJr)
8 for 2022


2023 Class
Arion Carter (jr)
Jeremiah Telander (jr)
Devin Hobbs (jr)
Ricky Gibson (jr)
Donte Thornton (NFL Draft)
Omar Norman Lott (NFL Draft)
Ethan Davis (rsSo )
Tyree Weathersby (raSo)
Nathan Robinson (rsSo)
Ayden Bussell (rsSo)
10 total class of 2023

2024 class
30 signed. 28 remain
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
The days of 7-5 being an expectation are over. The floor for this program under Heupel is 8 wins minimum. Saying 7-5 is a reasonable expectation in year 5 woild mean we have regressed and have major issues.
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Agreed. I don't expect us to be as good as last year, but this is a soft schedule by Tennessee standards and I don't see 5 losses on it. If that happens, there's locker room issues or something else going on.
 
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VolInNW said:
This is where I get frustrated. Heupel talks like a fan, and how depth is a challenge. You’re the coach, coach. See that issue a year out. Hit the portal. Shuffle position coaches as needed. Recruit then DEVELOP to need.

Heupel seems so passive most of the time. You never heard Saban or any other great coach reflect on depth issues. They fix them. Because that’s like, their job.
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Saban’s recruiting prowess — 17 consecutive top-5 recruiting classes, including the No. 1 class in the 247Sports Composite every season from 2011-2017, then again in 2019, 2021 and 2023. Including the 2024 class (which ranked 2nd nationally), Saban signed 75 5-star players (according to various recruiting services) and 282 4-star players in his 17 recruiting classes.


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Nick Saban's retirement opens the door to Florida recruiting: Who will fill the gap?

Nick Saban signed 28 5-star recruits from Florida. Derrick Henry, Calvin Ridley, etc., won national titles, too.
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"To be a champion, you better be relentless. You better be recruiting or your program is dying. You better approach every day understanding that what you can control is how hard you work, respecting that someone else is working really hard, too. What Coach Saban gets and what we try to do is understand how recruiting relentlessly is the foundation of everything else. You better approach that with humility,” Georgia head coach Kirby Smart told me at SEC Media Days.

Recruit well or die. Do your best until your best become better.
 
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rocketskates said:
Agreed. I don't expect us to be as good as last year, but this is a soft schedule by Tennessee standards and I don't see 5 losses on it. If that happens, there's locker room issues or something else going on.
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It could be as simple as not having quarterback figured out. Georgia, Bama, Florida could easily be losses even if things are clicking fairly well. Say OU makes a leap with the new OC and QB and we drop one we have no business losing as per usual, that’s 7-5. It wouldn’t take some unprecedented collapse or massive amounts of locker room strife. Even the 10-2 team last year quite easily could have dropped 3 more games if a play here or a play there went differently.
 
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LittleVol said:
2022 Class
James Pearce (NFL Draft)
Dylan Sampson (NFL Draft)
Dee Williams (graduated)
Bru McCoy (graduated)
André Turrentine (Senior)
Josh Joseph’s (Senior)
Tyre West (senior)
Jackson Ross ( Senior)
Brian Grant (rsJr)
8 for 2022


2023 Class
Arion Carter (jr)
Jeremiah Telander (jr)
Devin Hobbs (jr)
Ricky Gibson (jr)
Donte Thornton (NFL Draft)
Omar Norman Lott (NFL Draft)
Ethan Davis (rsSo )
Tyree Weathersby (raSo)
Nathan Robinson (rsSo)
Ayden Bussell (rsSo)
10 total class of 2023

2024 class
30 signed. 28 remain
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pretty bad.. bru also was a transfer so doesn't count
 
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